scifigrl47:

ellidfics:

No wonder Sitwell exclaims, “Are you kidding me?”  He fell at least 150 feet, smashed through a glass roof, and landed on a marble floor hard enough to bounce.  By all rights he should have died on impact, or sustained enough spinal and pelvic damage to be crippled for life.  Instead, he winces, staggers to his feet, and dashes for the garage.

That serum is a frickin’ MIRACLE.

It’s also the shield.  He does this in the comics all the goddamn time because he’s an IDIOT.  But by tucking his body around the shield, it absorbs the brunt of the impact, the vibranium absorbing the force, the same way it does in Avengers when Thor hits him dead on with Mjolnir.

The fact that he DID it, though, is reason enough to scream “Are you kidding me?” let alone the fact that he survived it.